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Jung referred to it as the "collective."

On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Charlie Carlson wrote:

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> http://icouzin.princeton.edu/collective-motion-and-decision-making-in-animal-groups/
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> Here's a link to a lab that does some original and amazing  
> interesting work.  You can find links to some of their recent work  
> and the images are absolutely fun to contemplate.
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> My reference to human social behavior and swarm intelligence refers  
> to my notion that most people and in fact just about every system of  
> social organization delegates authority and decision making, be it  
> logical, rational, or not.  We typically follow our friends,  
> community, and local custom.  Those "schools" of thought may or may  
> not have a rational basis, but they all exhibit the same behavioral  
> requirements to varying degrees.  This behavior rests deeply in the  
> very biological basis of our social structures, or so I've come to  
> believe, to put some irony in it all
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> C.
> On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:47 PM, Jennie Dusheck wrote:
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>> I would love to see you elaborate on this.
>> Jennie Dusheck
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>> At 7:47 PM -0800 3/2/11, Charlie Carlson wrote:
>>> This argument is a stand in for consistency of belief and whether  
>>> or not it's essential.  I call your attention to a talk at the  
>>> recent AAAS.  A school of fish depends more upon blind acceptance  
>>> rather than individual decision making based upon a broad degree  
>>> of sensory input and independent behavior.  Not that the match is  
>>> perfect,  but we may discovering our inner fish in both cases.
>>> C
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>>> Sent from my iPhone
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